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Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
What do you do when a cartoon strip just isn't funny Well, if you're like me, and I know I am, you take white-out pens and markers and try to make the cartoon strip funny, by golly. And that's exactly what I've done with a few Garfield strips. Here, then...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Click pic for larger, uncensored version.Roxy Music's fourth album, Country Life (1974), is wavy, flanging, thrill-seeking, eclectic, glam pop. The first half is mostly by-the-numbers all that, with second and third helpings of double-time. The latter hal...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Still more of what I've been spinning on the turntable platter...Lightning Hopkins - Original Folk Blues (1967)Everywhere else, his name is spelled Lightnin', so I hope this is the same guy. Lightning/Lightnin' was a Texas musician who popularized a strip...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Now I'm inventing my own memes. Here, in no special order, are five music records I feel have influenced my personality:1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)The first time I ever smoked cannabis I listened to this album on headphones. It was quite ...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Clicks for larger pics... I found Catholic Girls for $2 at Recycled Records in Springfield, IL, and I couldn't resist the album cover. It's 1982, all female new wave, sounding like a cross between Pat Benetar and The Pretenders with a good student of Ste...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
In the past week I've come across more than one song with a slash in the title. These included a song from the new Radiohead disc--"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"--and a song from Talking Heads' album Speaking in Tongues--"I Get Wild/Wild Gravity". I became curio...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Recently, going about my merry way, I happened upon several songs with a slash in the title. These included one from the new Radiohead album--"Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"--and one from Talking Heads' Speaking in Tongues--"I Get Wild/Wild Gravity". Natch, I beca...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Even more of what I've been spinning on the turntable platter...This is a limited edition orange translucent vinyl pressing of Talking Heads' 1983 album Speaking in Tongues. Apparently, artist Robert Rauschenberg won a Grammy Award for his work on the cov...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Even more of what I've been spinning on the turntable platter...This is a limited edition orange translucent vinyl pressing of Talking Heads' 1983 album Speaking in Tongues that a friend gave me years ago. Apparently, artist Robert Rauschenberg won a Gram...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Whelp, I joined in the fun for the Green Monkey Music Project Volume 9 - ABC. Theme rules are here. Downloads are here. I chose the orange star. My letters were U-Y, and these then were my selections:"Up North Kids" - Papa MPapa M--aka David Pajo--was a f...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Whelp, I joined in the fun for the Green Monkey Music Project Volume 9 - ABC. Theme rules are here. Downloads are on the way (link coming soon). I chose the orange star, and my letters were U-Y! These were my selections:"Up North Kids" - Papa MPapa M--aka...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
More of what I've been spinning on the turntable platter...This was Steppenwolf's first album, 1968. The opening song "Sookie Sookie" ("let it hang out baby"), I just love; great blues rock. The rest of the album, meh. Blues standards like "Hootchie Kootc...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
So this morning I downloaded the new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, from their web site. Below are a couple screen shots from the process. The band lets you pay however much you want for the zipped-up download of 160 kbps mp3s. I decided to pay £3 (about 6...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Ever since I bought my Panasonic SG-HM22, I've been listening to a lot of vinyl, and it's been great. Hence, I've decided to post a little bit about what's been on the platter.The Nice was keyboardist Keith Emerson's band before Emerson, Lake, and Palmer....
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
We here at The Cushy Blog, you may have noticed, have an affinity for small frogs. Besides thinking they're neat and cute (and perfect for an avatar), we maintain that if there's an answer somewhere out there to the meaning of life, it must have everythin...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Splotchy tapped me to join in the fun for the Green Monkey Music Project Vol. 7 (aka Speed It Up). For some reason two of my favorite songs of all time came right to mind: the slowish Led Zeppelin's "When the Levy Breaks" and the fastish Rod Stewart's "Yo...
Posted by The Cushy Blog 4 years ago.
Sort of going along with Splotchy's "frightening Friday" posts of horror movie trailers via YouTube leading up to Halloween, here's the trailer for The Blair Witch Project. (I couldn't wait until Friday, I guess.) I can't say much for it, as there's very ...
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